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Here’s a sign just outside my front door by the security panel of my building. I’m going to add in the unwritten words for you:
1. In case you don’t figure out that the only button that has the word “reset” in it is your best bet, we’re going to put the button’s text in bold AND show you a picture of it. Also, in case you don’t figure out that the red circle in the photo isn’t . . . → Read More: Reading between the lines Can someone please pass the hot chocolate? It’s freezing out there. On the bus with me today: - A bunch of people who think 60 degrees is cold. We’ve got sweaters, hoodies, jackets and full-on coats. People wear their hoods and beanies even while on the bus. The mothers have their children bundled up in fuzzy coats with the fur-lined hoods or covered by blankets in their car seats. No kidding. Heaven help us all survive this dreadful “cold” front . . . → Read More: On the bus: Coldsday I wish I had spent the summer reading. I have come up with some interesting research questions, that has been easy enough, but the challenge is describing where my question fits in the panoply of communications research. And not just knowing where it fits, but being able to point out every connection it has to any bit of scholarly knowledge that has already been discovered and collected. The amount of reading required to do this well will consume my career, . . . → Read More: Current hurdle: literature review It’s Fra-eee-day, Fra-eee-day, people, and I gotta make my mind up, which seat do I take? On the bus with me today: -A tall bus driver with corn rows and a toothpick sticking out of his mouth. This is what NBA players are doing these days, I guess. -A baby ‘fro. But he got the comb up in it, so it’s legit. Also, (fake?) diamond earrings. Update: A second short Afro gets on the bus, with the same black . . . → Read More: On the bus: Fra-eeee-day I am sitting here, reading about Steve Jobs, watching videos, viewing tributes. I am immensely sad. And I think to myself, “Why?! Why is this so painful for me?! I didn’t ever interact with him, and he sure didn’t know me! Why am I so affected by this? ———- I was busy with school and hadn’t heard about his passing until my wife mentioned something about “my hero” on facebook. At first, I was a little put off by the . . . → Read More: Confessions of a fanboy It is 7:50 a.m. here in Austin, the sun has been up for less than an hour. Its rays are still so horizontal that among the buildings on University of Texas campus, there are only a few cracks of sunlight that can poke through. Temperature is 55 degrees because it is finally starting to become fall, and when you walk past the huge hedges that have been recently watered, you get an even cooler draft. People have started to wear . . . → Read More: Update on the shorts So I had a great idea for a topic for my line of study, something I was really interested in and excited about. I presented it to my adviser and got a little wisdom in return. “You should probably choose a topic with which one of our professors are already familiar. If you can find something someone has experience in, that holds your interest, you should save a lot of time.” I told him I often am interested in a . . . → Read More: Largest current hurdle: stop being such a hussy Here’s a short quiz derived from last night’s BYU/UCF game. BYU ended up winning, I’m sure you know, but the offense and, as I hope to show here, the play-calling were still quite suspect. Test your football decision making under each of the following difficult circumstances. 1. It is 4th and 2. You have been moving the football well, especially with the run (on this drive, your running backs have averaged about 4 yards per carry), and you don’t want . . . → Read More: Football Basics, or How to Learn from Things that Have Already Happened Just as an example, here was my Tuesday schedule before starting my Ph.D. 6:40 a.m. Wake up, shower, get ready 7:30 a.m. Leave home 8:00 Begin teaching class 9:17 Break from class 9:30 Resume class 10:18 Let class out 12 minutes early because nobody can take it anymore 10:30 Visit bmolyneux’s office, talk video games with the boys 11:00 Maybe play some video games, maybe go to the library, depends on how busy I am and how busy bmolyneux is. . . . → Read More: Largest hurdle: Stay on task The Tuesday people are just glad it is not Monday anymore. On the bus with me today: -This one lady with small glasses was eating some fruit snacks. I wanted to ask her for some but she kinda has a mustache and sideburns. Her hat has an American flag and a mean-looking eagle on it. Her name is or should be Starla. - It was someone from the band Boston or just a normal white guy with an Afro. . . . → Read More: On the bus: Tuesday special |
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